Modern Style for a Modern Girl

Submitter: Yes, we are finally getting into some serious weeding of our academic library, hence this little gem. It has everything the modern girl (in 1969) would want to know:

-How to handle a coat (to be fair, as I live in the tropics, I may never have figured this out)

-How long one should lie in the sun

-How to have a gay, happy look

-How to shop with kindness

To top it all off, it smells really musty, the cover is fading and the pages are stained – won the trifecta!

Holly: This cover is definitely dirty looking. And old. Collectors will snatch this up at a book sale in a hot minute! Unless your academic library has a real reason to keep something like this, and I mean a REAL academic reason…make way for something newer. There are some great old pictures in this book, though!

Seriously--Annette Funicello never needed a gramophone for her Beach Blanket Bingo! And that was way before 1969. My groovy teenage cousin would bring her pink portable battery-op turntable and Brenda Lee 45's when she babysat us!

The kind of book that makes for great reference (if I was writing a Y/A in the period say). But obviously that's a specialized niche (I do, however, bookmark posts like this just in case I do need a reference).

Love the record player on the beach! But they better move it soon, before it gets washed away, along with the girl. I also like the bit about "shopping with kindness." We definitely could use some more of that these days.